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Show FIRES DESTROY OLD TREASURES Britain Much Agitated By Loss of Many Famed Residences BI ( KM II ftfATSON SH' i;i Correspondent of The standard stand-ard - Ln miner. LONDON. Nov 25 British officials of-ficials are greatly concerned over the destruction by fire of many of the country's most famous uncient residences resi-dences Stained glass windows, ancient woodwork and relica of the early days of the empire have been lost. Included in the list of those that have been burned are Yawsley hall. Eye, Suffolk, whose history goes back beyond the Domesday book. Antrim castle, Goodrich house, Hatfield, ;re.'it Ford hall, .Stamford and lown-Intr lown-Intr hall ITolv W . 1 1 t.-. n,io is the destruction of many of the most famous buildings In Ireland as the result of reprisals in tho civil war In progress (here, go concerned fire the officials about the outlook that they decided to call a special roJiventlon to devi.se ways and means to end such tires in the future. It Is pointed out that the loss resulting from such fires Is lrreparnble Historic His-toric furnishings, documents and the like, some of which exceeded In value anything of the sort In the British museum, have been destroyed, lie-cause lie-cause of the ancient character (,f many of the castles and the fact that (hey are so situated that It Is Impossible Im-possible to furnish adequate fir,, protection pro-tection the task of safe-guarding them admittedly Ls a difficult one. It is hoped, however, that ns a result of the agitation the owners will be ln-luced ln-luced to take special precautions and possibly, to place special watchmen -n duty to guard against fires In the future. , QAISLISG YOKES. There is more about the English llvorce system In "points of view," wo volumes srltun by Lord Birken- ii 1. 1 ex-ioni chancellor and lust I published. He reminds his a'ntl-dlvorce a'ntl-dlvorce compatriots that 40,000 people are bound to partners who h ive been I Certified lnane for five year thai '.ens of thousands of women are , neither wives nor widows; for three I years and more they have been deserted de-serted They have no redress. no I Chance for freedom. He thinks di- I vorce reform tho most Imperative of , so laj reforms, declaring that "the spiritual and moral sides of marriage are Incomparably more Important than the physical bide, ' and In con-sequ, con-sequ, , ,. that divorce should le conceded con-ceded on grounds other than adulterv' SEVERELY PUNISHED 1 he prerlquisltipn of the rtriitsh chief of police are slim. If the Canterbury Can-terbury case Is typical. Chief Constable Con-stable p.. n rr.rlton of that historic town, who has served most of his life With the police and was only seven ears away from retirement on a good pension was demoted to ser-geanl ser-geanl because he applied fo passes to a local cricket match He used a transportation company's private car to travel to a nc-arb cltv once and because he asked (he company for bus pase for his family. Carlton admitted that he received these favors, but said h bad not asked for them. And he i3 sick, his wife is sick, and his fellow citizens are holding hold-ing Indignation meetings Thev think an occasional free pass to o game corrupts nobody, and anyway Canterbury Canter-bury s policemen who are apparently satisfactory like all the other varieties of policemen, have received sui h favors. co |